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Abronia smithi (Smith's Arboreal Alligator Lizard)

Wikipedia Abstract

Abronia smithi is a species of lizard in the family Anguidae known by the common name Smith's arboreal alligator lizard. It is endemic to the state of Chiapas in Mexico. This species was described in 1993 by Campbell and Frost, and named after the herpetologist Hobart Muir Smith. It is an arboreal species which lives in the canopies of large trees in the cloud forests of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas. This lizard is only known from a few locations. It is uncommon and may be threatened by deforestation, but it occurs in protected habitat, including the El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve.
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Attributes

Habitat Substrate [1]  Arboreal
Reproductive Mode [1]  Viviparous

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1Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0